Nothing says "Cold War glamour" like a Soviet knock-off of a Western technology — especially when it's been reverse-engineered to perfection. Here are some of the greatest and most stylish examples of Soviet techno-piracy.

The impounded plane, one of three United States Air Force bombers that made forced landings in the Soviet Far East port of Vladivostok in 1944, was reduced to its 105,000 component parts and each one was copied by engineers working for the aviation pioneer Andrei Tupolev. – according to The Telegraph.

Original: Zeiss Contax II (1936-1942), the first camera with a viewfinder and a rangefinder combined in a single window – Rip-off: Kiev II (1947-1957) with a copy of a Zeiss Sonar 2.0/50 mm lens (ZK-Zorki, Solid ZK or Jupiter-8)

The Space Shuttle (1981-2011) – Buran (1988)

The Space Shuttle-like Buran completed only one unmanned spaceflight, and spent only three hours in space. The Buran programme was cancelled in 1993, but four other ones were being built then – the Shuttle 2.03 was fully dismantled, the 2.02 was 10-20% done, partially dismantled and some parts were sold on the Internet, the 30-50% done Baikal (2.01) was left under open sky for years, and the OK-1K2 Ptichka (1.02) was 95-97% complete.

Original: The German V-2 rocket (produced between 1942 and 1945) – Rip-off: The R-1 (tested in 1948, accepted by the army in 1950)

V-2

In 1945 the Soviet Army captured some military factories, V-2 production facilities, among others. Between 1946 and the mid-1950s some German missile engineers were forced to stay in the Soviet Union to help constructing the Soviet copy of the German rocket.

The Hawker Siddeley Harrier was the only successful V/STOL (vertical and/or short take-off and landing) close-support fighter aircraft. The Soviet copy was not that popular – it could hover and fly quite well, but carried only 2200 pounds (1000 kg) of weapons.